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91ae8ada9916 | A588F05DC41F | Over the course of summer, the projects might be forgotten if the teachers were to make them because no one enjoys them. | Claim | Adequate |
389ee5e09508 | A588F05DC41F | To ensure that the projects don't get lost, students would have to think of ideas that would make the projects a blast to get though. Ideas like travelling the world and recording the experience could be trilling and get the gears turning in the students brains.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
c17b9faeb8b1 | A588F05DC41F | eaving it to the student population of the school to make the projects would keep these projects enjoyable, challenging, and overall painless. This project would be like ripping off a bandage really quick to get it done without pain and have fun the rest of break. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bedec0b33cb9 | A5C943C27546 | The author supports that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers represents. | Position | Adequate |
624ceb04911e | A5C943C27546 | Venus is a planet closest to Earth. It's conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. Venus may be the most Earth-like plannet in our solar system. Venus has more characteristics than Earth does. | Evidence | Adequate |
c051d06ee1db | A5C943C27546 | Veus conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. | Claim | Adequate |
885fed40f466 | A5C943C27546 | Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in our solar system. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. It is crazy imaging Venus having way more pressure than Earth. The text sasy, "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupying volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes." This shows that Venus has many powerful climate changes. The author states this becaue, he wants to inform us how dangers Venus can be, but yet so interesting and gives readers want to know more of it. | Evidence | Adequate |
228d6a8ba54e | A5C943C27546 | According to the article, Venus may be the most Earth- like plannet in our solar system | Claim | Adequate |
4f0a8b9d14c4 | A5C943C27546 | The text says, "Often referred to as Earth's twin." Venus is closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. This shows that people may know Venus as a different version as Earth. This relates that the author supports the idea of studying Venus is worthy because it is very similar to Earth, so why not study it and explore it? The author may think that Venus can be somewhere people can survive in and look more forward to. | Evidence | Adequate |
742df14e4cce | A5C943C27546 | Venus has way more characteristics than Earth does. | Claim | Ineffective |
18727c28fc59 | A5C943C27546 | The author stated how it is the hottest surface temperature, more powerful climate cahnges, more atmospheric pressure, etc. Venus is a unique planet. The author want us to invest more to Venus, because it has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f4e17932c736 | A5C943C27546 | Venus has dangers it despites, but can be so interesting to invest more on. The author thinks Venus may be the most earth-like plannet in our system. It is like Earth's 'twin'. So, if it's similar to Earth, why not look more forward to studying Venus. It is important to know what's surrounded in Earth. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
e2f4301b351e | A5DA0D5410DE | My principal recently decided that all students should participate in an extra curricular activity, and I totally agree. | Position | Adequate |
99b9f7145e03 | A5DA0D5410DE | I think every student should participate in an activity like sports, a musical in s trument class, or some sort of club. This would help students to learn and develop talents and skills | Claim | Effective |
8e7d0619a56f | A5DA0D5410DE | Also it would give students a time to socialize with people. | Claim | Adequate |
fee1a71c6bdc | A5DA0D5410DE | If students do after schools activities like sports they will be able to exercise and practice coordination with friends. | Claim | Effective |
fe8366e1ab72 | A5DA0D5410DE | Sports will make students to grow to strong and get lots of sunlight. Learning an instrument has been proven to make people smarter. But not just in music, in other curriculum too. Also there is a lot of different clubs out there that can help people with getting jobs or just learn a hobbie too. | Evidence | Ineffective |
41bd45cbd14f | A5DA0D5410DE | One big thing that I will really like about this is that it gives students more time to socialize mwith friends | Claim | Effective |
1453c0c2e206 | A5DA0D5410DE | This will also give practice of big social skills you will use through your life. These skill will help get jobs for students later in their life. With an extra hour or two to spend time with peers and teachers they will get alot of practice. But most of all give students a fun time after spending all their day at school. | Evidence | Adequate |
72fa119464a0 | A5DA0D5410DE | the principals decision on students participating in extra curricular activities would good for me and my peers. It will give students time to develop and grow their skills, like coordination, knowledge of a topic or hobbies. Also it would give students time to socialize, grow social skills and have fun. So in the end the principals decision is great. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1d21330d1595 | A615D47180DF | The author uses many details from the article to support his claim that Venus is worthy pursuit desipte the dangers it presents by telling the reader how dangerous Venes is. | Lead | Adequate |
7c9148572eb9 | A615D47180DF | the author tells us about some details about the temperatures, | Claim | Adequate |
c61ef884fc94 | A615D47180DF | like how it would be around 170 fahenheit there. The air pressure would be close to sea level on earth. These details he gives us about the conditions Venus has are far to exterme, but the author says it survivable for humans.
| Evidence | Adequate |
abe65428a5c4 | A615D47180DF | A second, detail that the author gives use is about NASA trying to collect samples of rocks so they can study | Claim | Adequate |
113e9ec30d79 | A615D47180DF | But most of the robots they send to Venus get destroyed because of the choas that happens there. Another project that they did was that they used technology called mechanical computers. These mechanical conputers are are powerful, flexible, and quick but the are delicate when it comes to extreme conditions. | Evidence | Adequate |
8fec088dec76 | A615D47180DF | A third detial, that the author gave us information about the text was that not even a single space ship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. | Claim | Adequate |
998fe053a3db | A615D47180DF | The author also goes on to say how the more challenging the place is the more they examine more closely. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. The Earth and Venus aslo orbits the sun in different times so its harder to vist it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
48a53fe63b55 | A615D47180DF | In Conclustion, Venus is very hard to get to because of it condtions there but it is survivable for humans. NASA has tried many times to get on Venus but they have failed many times. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1826744886de | A615D47180DF | i think the autor supports his claim really well with the detail he gives us. | Position | Adequate |
f2166975fe7b | A620127943B6 | I strongly disagree | Position | Adequate |
c42b8aa9a31f | A620127943B6 | some students don't want to participate in extracurricular activities. | Claim | Adequate |
0d7534bd9200 | A620127943B6 | Most of the student body have things to do afterschool and they can't attend both at the same time. | Claim | Adequate |
08a8307711f2 | A620127943B6 | Our principles shouldn't make somone do something if they don't want to. | Claim | Adequate |
0f4086ca8e5d | A620127943B6 | If the parents don't want their kid staying for extacurricular activites then they shouldn't because what if the parents have something to do with their kids afterschool or they have a doctors appointement. | Claim | Adequate |
e7bb80f56c77 | A620127943B6 | Majority of the student body at our school doesn't know how to play sports | Claim | Adequate |
644093dabf55 | A620127943B6 | The coaches at our school put people on the team that doesn't know how to play. What's the purpose of having a team with people that don't know what is going on during the games. If the students dont want to play something the shouldn't be forced to do something they don't want to do. Sport require effort to put yourself on the field and not mess up in front of the coach so that you would be able to make the team and not be embarrassed to not see your name ont the paper while eveyone that made it is celebrating.
| Evidence | Adequate |
3411752766a6 | A620127943B6 | A lot of the student body gets upset because the president promises something and it never happenes and then it turns in a big rivarly between everyone. We learn abut politics in our geography and i think the us as the student body shouldn't be worried about politics as much because then the student body will think that it is ok to do what the politics do and say. | Evidence | Ineffective |
62a526a62e4b | A620127943B6 | In conclusion i stated that i strongly disagree because not everyone has the ability to do certain things that others can. I feel that if the students don't want to do extracurricular activites then they shouldn't be made to because they don't want to go out there looking ike a fool or run for president and not make it because they didnt have enough votes. The year book is something that requires a lot of effort and time and not alot of people have pateince to be able to handle what they have to do. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
787522308f7c | A62EBECE741D | I agree because all students should do something fun and move around | Position | Ineffective |
3287abeb6625 | A62EBECE741D | Most students would rather sit than play sports, so they can still do something active with the yearbook. All students should at lest do one activity rather than academics. This decision should be allowed if a student wants to do a activity or not. Would you want to participate in a extracurricular activity? | Evidence | Adequate |
69a2ff51d86c | A62EBECE741D | I agree because students move around when playing sports | Claim | Ineffective |
28860de5877f | A62EBECE741D | Most students that play in a team could play the sports that they like. You can start feeling healthy after a game of any sport, and students can enjoy the nature when there outside. | Evidence | Ineffective |
847cc60ec5df | A62EBECE741D | Students can help out with yearbooks, as a result they can design the front cover of the year book | Claim | Ineffective |
b5d74471a3cb | A62EBECE741D | Lots of students like art work from the front cover and will want a yearbook | Evidence | Ineffective |
eb721cfdd2cc | A62EBECE741D | Students can serve on students council which helps other students with disorders. | Claim | Ineffective |
65672857f223 | A62EBECE741D | They will be appreciated in what they are doing for others and the rest of the students will be happy. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1112131a848e | A62EBECE741D | thats why I agree, so students can be active during school hours. Some students would rather sit and work with the yearbook. Some just want to help other people in the school. All academics should be for one half of school time and activity the second half. The activities would help students refresh their brains and forget the things they are going through. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d9cea3b1f6c5 | A63EC24F1DD4 | In 1988 a Viking 1 took a, slightly disturbing, picture. Of a face! Viking 1 found a landform that happends to look like an Egyptian Pharoah. This face was found and started major controversy.
Some people had thought that it was fake and others thought that it was just a coincidence. The massive sand storms just created a face. That's all that they thought. But can that be true?
| Lead | Effective |
6af638cf76bf | A63EC24F1DD4 | The face on Mars really hit it off on Earth. Everyone was talking about it. " The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery story chechout lines for 25 years!" Some people believe that this face was created by aliens; it is a sign of life on Mars. But, "few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact." That is just crazy, but scientists are backing it up. | Evidence | Adequate |
55dafac435c9 | A63EC24F1DD4 | There is no proof for it to be alien made. | Claim | Adequate |
fa2f48460f1f | A63EC24F1DD4 | Certain people still say that "it's aliens, aliens are making these faces!" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d1ba3366f2f1 | A63EC24F1DD4 | That is not true without the evidence. Which, there is none. There are ablolutly zero facts that aliens would be able to make a face. Or that there are aliens. No facts. No aliens. If there were aliens how would they even make a face?
| Rebuttal | Adequate |
75b3fec6bb03 | A63EC24F1DD4 | This has to be just a natural landform that formed when a massive sandstorm hit | Claim | Adequate |
b9cd9ffacb2a | A63EC24F1DD4 | It is just a coincidence. Nothing freaky or wierd, just a face in the sand. It's natural, not an alien. According to the text, "What the picture actually shwos is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." See, nothing wierd going on on Mars. Or at least that we know of.
| Evidence | Adequate |
e3051140ad7c | A63EC24F1DD4 | So, in conclusion, this artifact of mars is real. | Position | Ineffective |
d1fff587424f | A63EC24F1DD4 | This is, because, there are no facts to prove otherwise. If there were facts than it would be ruled an alien artifact. Which would be pretty cool, but it isn't real. And we shouldn't be pretending like it is real. Scientists are backing this up here they are saying that it can't be an alien artifact. It's impossible as of right now. There is no evidence that an alien has made this face in the sand. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a819ab5fd573 | A6527612255D | Technology has made a big impact on the world today. The number problem with technology is CELL PHONES! We use cell phones all day and night. There have been so many accidents and mostly the cost of texting and driving. | Lead | Adequate |
451590e594a7 | A6527612255D | I think that drivers should not be able to use their phones while driving but only if emergency & navigation. | Position | Adequate |
89e31837acb6 | A6527612255D | This will lead to lower accidents in the u. s. | Claim | Adequate |
80e2f1f5f24a | A6527612255D | We all want to be on are phones every minute and every second but here are some facts that will make you think twice before picking up the phone. Approximately 600,000 drivers are attempting to use their phones while behind the wheel of an automobile. | Evidence | Adequate |
cf8cf7e8b8b2 | A6527612255D | There are nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents while texting and driving. | Claim | Adequate |
9145310579b8 | A6527612255D | On the day of July 1, 2018 a new law saying that " Drivers cannot have a phone in their HAND or touching any part of their body while talking on their phone while driving". Meaning you will get a ticket | Evidence | Adequate |
3e9ffd149c73 | A6527612255D | i'm pretty sure that nobody wants to get a 150-250 dollar ticket for doing something stupid. | Claim | Adequate |
0b1a42893ff0 | A6527612255D | It's really sad when you think about it, people have developed skills and strategies to make it look like they're not on the phone. | Evidence | Ineffective |
334acbcaafa9 | A6527612255D | People often feel like they will miss something and separated from the world when they aren't on their phone. So many many lives have been taken just because a single text or a single call. Thousands are dying and being injured. So no cell phones shouldn't be able to be used while driving. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b1b1e541754f | A65A82E9C85D | Some new computer softwar that recognize emotions. The software is the latest innovation from prof. New techology experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. But each expression is compared against a neutral face. But the computers can identify human emotions like happy, fearful, angry and sad.
The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. To faces more expressive the can tell how the person feel sad, angey and happy. Also the video the people can play with friend in school or in online. When student are bored they can play video game and make their happy. The hospital use technology for video surgy. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. so computer need to understand that, too.
imagine a computer that knows when you happpy or sad | Evidence | Ineffective |
dcf5c6cca1bc | A65A82E9C85D | Technology can make thing better but some technology can make thing worse. | Position | Ineffective |
5aded4db02f8 | A68BE59D62B4 | I feel like that technology can't tell if you happy, sad, anger, or disgusted by anything because you can just make any face in it can just say what it is i mean i'm not saying that technology not smart now days, i know that technology can do all type of things | Lead | Adequate |
d84dfb1bdd94 | A68BE59D62B4 | i feel like we don't need them type of thing in the classroom. | Position | Adequate |
482a677184e8 | A68BE59D62B4 | I feel like people don't want to show they feelings a lot of people want keep things to they self. | Claim | Adequate |
4c1ca69a77e8 | A68BE59D62B4 | We all want keep a lot of thing to are self the face scan reading people emotional not right but if people something deep i feel like you should share because you can't hide a lot in things in life i feel like it the sametime we should and shouldn't have this face scaning emotional. | Evidence | Ineffective |
02ba5c5852a6 | A68BE59D62B4 | I feel like people think it good to have for them self i feel like we should get it because a lot of human perform this impressive "calclulation" everyday because you can probably tell how friend is feeling simply by look on her face. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1a9a47d1d074 | A68BE59D62B4 | But to be on the safe side we can tell how people are doing because some people be lying about how they feel. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
22db43f0f354 | A68BE59D62B4 | Would you every use technology to read students emotional?
Yes so i can tell how they are doing and if the feeling well or bad today i feel like students should show they feeling because we would know how i person feel intel they tell us. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
0ea115262f3f | A69B61336132 | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during thier break. Do you think that these summer projects should be student-designed or teacher- designed? Many people feel that it should be student-designed and others feel it should be teacher-designed. | Lead | Adequate |
08a08ed5ea1a | A69B61336132 | Students should design the summer projects that they have to do. | Position | Adequate |
f537f08d7d8b | A69B61336132 | The projects should be student-designed because they can make it fun and it would give them more of a desire to actually do the project. | Claim | Adequate |
35eec0debb1c | A69B61336132 | The students can make it more fun because they know what the enjoy doing over summer or what they would be able to make fun. They would have more of a desire to do it because they made it and because it would be fun and not completely complicated. For example, Generic_Name and her classmates had to do a summer project and their teachers designed the project. Generic_Name and her friends didnt do the project because whenever they got ready to do it together a couple of them got bored with it because it was not fun and the other students did not complete it because it was too complicated for them to do. That is one reason as to why I believe that students should design their own summer projects. | Evidence | Adequate |
e0ed89f8b9b2 | A69B61336132 | If a student designs their own summer projects they will more than likely do a better job on it. | Claim | Adequate |
4f43d96703bd | A69B61336132 | Students are just like everyone else and they do a better job on something they made up themselves. Students like to do their own things and if a teacher desnigned the project they would not be able to enjoy it and do a better job on it. For example, Mrs. Generic_Name gave have her class a specific summer project they had to do and she allowed the other half of her class to choose what they would like to do for a project. They students that did not get to choose their project either did not do it or did not get that well of a grade on it because they were not at all interested in it. However, the students that did get to choose thier projects did complete it and they all did very well on it. That is way in my opinion, teadcher should not design the summer projects for students, but students should design the projects themselves. | Evidence | Adequate |
9e078d3de31f | A69B61336132 | If teachers designed the summer projects they would have more indepth questions and work to do that would get students brains thinking and learning. Teacher also know all of the critearia that has to be followed. Teachers are able to make projects fun and enjoyable as well as give the students a little stuggle with the work so they would actually be learning instead of just flying right through the project. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
549d8f09c8b5 | A69B61336132 | I do still believe that students should design their own projects.
| Rebuttal | Ineffective |
964e0f5f526f | A69B61336132 | my opinion is that students should design their own summer projects because they know what they like for fun things and they would do a better job on their project if they designed it. I do see how it would benifit if teachers designed it however students would still do a better job on it and have more fun and do it on time if they designed the summer project themselves. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d647799ce0ac | A7431EE1E25B | The author does not support the idea that studyng Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because he or she provides no explanation of facts stated and creates conflicting ideas that cast a grim shadow on travel to Venus. | Position | Adequate |
bac7a07ea6c0 | A7431EE1E25B | First, the author doesn't support the idea effectively because he or she presents facts without explaining the significance or importance of them. | Claim | Adequate |
80f2747874e7 | A7431EE1E25B | While describing why scientists consider visits to venus, the author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in out solar system...The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable"(4).
By presenting that scientists want to visit Venus then almost immediately jumping to the weak conclusion that the "value of returning to Venus seems indisputable", the author fails to explain why the scientists want to visit Venus and why those reasons are important or significant.
Without an explanation of facts, writers leave the reader to create conclusions in their own minds, possibly without a complete understanding, weakening the authors support of his or her own claim or idea. | Evidence | Effective |
75bcbe2d23e1 | A7431EE1E25B | Second, the author doesn't support the idea effectively because he or she creates the picture in the reader's mind that successful and worthwhile travel to Venus is nearly impossible and certainly not attainable with today's technology. | Claim | Effective |
b61eabe00754 | A7431EE1E25B | While writing on what would be necessary for travel and observation of Venus, the author states "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions...[and be] survivable for humans.
However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions...[Also,] standard forms of photography...[would be] innefective...Therefore, sciendtists seeking to...understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks"(5).
By stating that "a vehicle hovering over Venus" would be safe for humans and then directly stating that it would not be enough and that scientists who want useful information would have to "get up close and personal despite the risks", the author states conflicting ideas.
In addition, earlier in the passage the author states "On the planet's surgace, temperatures average over 800 degrees"(3).
This creates another serious flaw in the author's idea, because the conditions stated are not even close to survivable. | Evidence | Effective |
4975a2111405 | A7431EE1E25B | Combining the evidence presented by the author would point to the conclusion that astronomers would need to be using vehicles and photography equipment that currently don't exist and, even with unavailable technology, they must be willing to die to travel to Venus for study.
This creates the idea in the reader's head that studying Venus is impossible, which greatly weakens the author's claim.
All in all, impossibilities, conflicting ideas, and a lack of explanation of evidence crontribute to a weak argument in favor of the idea that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
7de7f065f585 | A7AF38D7EB8F | People, Muesums, and Schools are still wandering "to this day" if Leonardo Da Vinci made his famous painting of Mona Lisa with a smile on "her" face, well, in Paragraph 1(Lines 1-2), there is a descripion of how Nick D'Alto is saying that Mona Lisa is Eighty-Three percent happy, Nine percent disgusted, Six percent fearful, and Two percent angry. The new technology system being described in the
Facial Action Coding System (suggested by Dr. Huang) could possibly make a big difference of how Mona Lisa "REALLY FEELS", and how it would be easier for students to learn about whether or not "She" was made "HAPPY" in Da'Vinci's paintings. | Lead | Adequate |
830c06ab1a40 | A7AF38D7EB8F | Some students in the Twenty-First Century are not willing to learn about certain topics in school because of all the other amazing internet resources and games they think are part of computer freedom, but inspite of Three- Dimentinal vision, Mona Lisa could have been much angrier than what she might have seemed like in her face, and she might have been fearful because of her hair style and her looks "in the dark!" Maybe, there was a possibility that a demostration of Mona Lisa could test how well with a(n) computer with "2020 Vision Software", or have a(n) emotional sensor flashdrive to attach to your PC Engine when you want there to be certain conducting over feelings from your computer technology | Evidence | Ineffective |
d513425ced9c | A7AF38D7EB8F | I think that this kind of technology is kind of un-realistic, but it would be a good source for what the person studying in will thinks about what he learned in the past | Claim | Ineffective |
f776e5d1d790 | A7AF38D7EB8F | "Once enough of the Life-Story of the person has gone by." | Evidence | Ineffective |
d7751ed4f92a | A7AF38D7EB8F | I would imagine that constructing a computer that has a lot of functions and features could lack the knowledge of a person's understanding of how to "USE" the computer properly, which will turn out to be more like "TRASHWARE" than "SOFTWARE" | Position | Ineffective |
49d4b284fda6 | A7AF38D7EB8F | The biggest part I think the Facial Action Coding System "Is Worth" is how you can just control anything in your "IMAGINATION" to discover the strong ways that you can make video games from your imagination, show how you truly feel, and picture yourself " in that video game." Dr. Huang is not a bad "Pre- Innovator", but he could have added specific date(s) to his context. | Evidence | Ineffective |
44df64e762ad | A7AF38D7EB8F | If a type of computer with 3-D software were to exist, then there would be a great possibility that by Two- Thousand Twenty, there will be the greatest chance of a computer with special features existing "if Dr. Huang will start planning how the computer he's wishing to come out will be invented." | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9a1c84ca2b8f | A7D201133DAD | Limiting your car usage has benifits to yourself, the community and the environment. | Position | Adequate |
94e9940c0c79 | A7D201133DAD | In Vauban, Germany residents have given up their cars. In this expeirimental community, street parking, driveways, and garages are almost forbidden. Car ownership is however allowed, but the only place to park are large garages at the edge of the development. If you own a car and decide to park there, you must buy a space for $40,000, plus a home! The outcome of this has been most of the community don't own cars. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" this was said by Heidrun Walter, mother of two and a media trainer. Also this communities idea has been adopted around the world. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a8ddfb4bc03e | A7D201133DAD | An effect of extreme car ususe can be smog | Claim | Adequate |
5d4611120da1 | A7D201133DAD | Paris, France has the most smog out of all the other European capitals. They had "147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in london, Reuters found." After days of heavy pollution. A partial driving ban was enforced to clear the city's air. Motorists with even-numbered license plates were told to leave their cars at home. If they didn't do so, they would be charged with a 22-euro fine. The same order wouls be given to odd-numbered plates the next day. Almost 4,000 driver's cars were fined for using their cars.
In Bogota, Colombia they set up a program, The day without cars it's when cars are banned and only buses and taxis are permitted. Their goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" stated by Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman. The day without cars is part of an improvment campaign that began in bogota in the mid-1990's. during this year's anual day without cars, authorities from others countries have can to see the event and were very pleased by it. " These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders" said by Enrique Riera, the major of Asunci`on, Paraguay.
In recent studies it's shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, getting less lincenses, and driving less as each year goes by. Many beleive America's love for cars is deteriorating. The number of miles driven has gone down since 2005. Some think it's because we simpliy can't afford new cars."A study last year found driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009" Even the number of cars per home has gone down. "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn" said by Michael Sivak, a research professor at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute. If this patterns persists it will be very benificial to the environment. Mimi Sheller, a sociology professer at Drexel University thinks the internet makes people feel more connected, therefore we don't feel the need to drive out and meet friends. | Evidence | Adequate |
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